VMware vSphere 8 Foundations — Question 11

An administrator is planning to upgrade hardware and needs to keep the virtual machines online during the process.
Which vSphere feature will allow this to occur?

Answer options

• A. vSphere Distributed Power Management
• B. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• C. vSphere High Availability
• D. vSphere Motion

Correct answer: D

Explanation

vSphere Motion is the correct answer as it allows the live migration of virtual machines from one host to another without downtime, thus keeping them online during hardware upgrades. The other options do not provide this live migration capability; for example, vSphere High Availability focuses on automatic recovery from host failures, but does not facilitate hardware upgrades while maintaining VM uptime.